Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1899 — CITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. -T Daily Grist of Loral Happen mars Clasxiiird Under Un-ir Respective Headings. FRIDAY. Mrs. M. Pr Warner went to Delphi this afternoon to visit relatives. Mrs. Fred Phillips went to Fowler this morning to visit a few days with relatives.

The excessive rains and warm temperature are fast making the dirt roads practically impassable. Rev. N. H. Sheppard was called to Medaryville Wednesday to preach the funeral of Mrs. Polly Blue. Dr. Hillis, the lecturer for this evening, arrived from Chicago on the 1:45 p. m. train, this afternoon. He is stopping at the Makeever House. C. P. Wright, after a few days at home, departed for St. Louis last night, and from there will return to the Alabama mining regions. J. N. Tanner, our former townsman, who for a year or two has been running a blacksmith shop at Pleasant Grove, was in town today and reports that he has just moved his residence and business to Valma.

W. S. Coen rested better last night, and to his relatives seemed generally easier, but the physician’s conclusions about his present symptoms have not yet been ascertained, Michael Gerbrick, the father of thirty-two children, a resident of Crawfordsville since 1850, and who ran the first locomotive between Crawfordsville and Lafayette, on the Monon railroad, is dead at the Montgomery county infirmary. A few months ago the Monon had built a hundred or more cars fifty feet in length, and there is suoh a demand for them that the company will build more. Some of the roads have commenced building cars sixty feet long for carry-

! ing bulky freight and they are ! kept constantly in service. 1 ! The supreme court has affirmed ! a judgment of SI,OOO damages to | a wheelman who was run over by ! a brewer’s wagon. This will be glad news to wheelman. Whoever : has ridden a wheel, and guarding | against the perils in front, has lis- | tened to the thump of horses feet behind, not knowing what instant ! he would be dashed headlong to ; the pavement by some reckless I driver, can readily appreciate this. Some measure of protection should certainly be given to the riders of wheels for many drivers seem to feel that a wheelman has no rights they are bound to respect.

A. F. Hopkins, cashier at McCo_\’s bank, left this afternoon for an extensive trip south. He will join his brother, A. H. Hopkins, at Indiana Mineral Springs, and they will make the trip together, and are making it primarily for the benefit of Arthur’s health, which has not been good for some time past. They expect to be away about six weeks.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give a social next Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. N. J. Reed from 5 until 9:30. Elegant refreshments consisting of hot biscuits, fried ham and eggs, butter, jelly and coffee will be served at the small sum of 15 cents A high class entertainment consisting of the best local talent has been arranged and a good time is assured. Everyone cordially., invited. Bring your sweethearts and do not miss this treat.

The vote by which the Knotts bill was killed in tbe house on Tuesday was reconsidered and the bill egrossed. It provides that the sale of reclaimed swamp lands by the state shall apply to the drainage and improvement of the Kankakee valley. It seems likely to become a law. If so it will be the only successful drainage aot proposed at the legislature. The Gifford Kankakee drainage bill was killed, as was also the aot amending the five mile ditoh law. Still another proposed drainage law was one which was to be a substitute for and to other drainage laws. It was wholly impracticable and deserved the killing it got.

SATURDAY. C. W. Hanley went to Wheatfield this morning on legal business. Miss Mae Dunlap, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Mary bell Purcupile of this city. D. Mulford is back from a month’s stay at his Ohio home, Marysville. County Superintendent Hamilton is attending a teachers’ institute at Wheatfield today. Mrs. Matie Hopkins went to Chicago this morning where she will visit relatives for several days. W. S. Coen’s condition has improved considerable, though he is not yet considered entirely ont of danger. Homer Babcock went to Lafayette this morning, and it is understood will enter Pnrdne University. Mrs. Henry Purcupile left this morning for Urbana, HI., to visit with her Uncle Solomon Wells who is quite sick. Frank Osborne, manager of tbe new lumber yard at Kirklin, is .back here today, arranging for the

removal of bis family to that town. They will go there Monday or Tuesday. A Wabash freight train was wrecked on the Monon crossing at Delphi, last evening. The train due here at 6:30 last night had to go around by Lafayette, and was nearly three hours late. . Thursday N at Wheatfield August Sdbriber was examined before inquire Swisher, charged with attempted criminal assault on Miss Susie Callaghan He gave bail of SSOO to appear before the circuit court.

The anti-saloon people at Monticello were unable to get signatures enough to defeat the saloon applicants in that town, and they have given up the fight. The saloonists and the anti-saloonists both made thorough canvasses of the town and township. L. B. Josserand was in town today. He is again resident of Jasper county, having sold his place in Pulaski Co., near Francesville and bought the old Fred Zard farm, in Hanging Grove. The latter contains 320 acres, and will be largely utilized as a stock farm.

Governor Mount last Saturday, filled the vacancy in the board of trustees of Purdue University, caused by the death of Attorney Chas. B. Stuart, of Lafayette, by the appointment of William V. Stuart, brother of the deceased, to the place. The selection is regarded as a wise and commendable one. The Senate confirmed the nomination of F. B. Meyer as postmaster, Thursday. Some little time will, probably elapse before the necessary preliminaries are arranged, and it is not unlikely that he will defer taking control of the office until April Ist, which is the beginning of a quarter, and for that reason a better time to begin than any other. There was a good audience at the opera house last night,.to hear Rev. N. D. Hillis, D. D. lecture on the subject of Ruskin. It was the closing number of the winter’s lecture course. Though the lecturer has been very much occupied lately in closing up matters preparatory to going to Brooklyn to begin his labors as pastor of Plymouth church, he showed no lack of vigor in his efforts last evening. He well demonstrated his great abilities as a speaker and a thinker, and his lecture seems to have the most complete satisfaction to all who heard it. The doctor left on the 11 p. m. train south, intending to go directly to Brooklyn, this being his last appearance as a public speaker, in the west, at this time. His sermons at Plymouth are still to be published every Monday, in the Times Herald.

MONDAY. Oats 27 cents. Corn 29£ cents. Wheat 55 to 62 cents. Ernest Middleton went to Chicago today to visit with' relatives for a few weeks. Miss Brown, of Toledo, Ohio, is making a few days visit with Mrs. F. A. Ross of this place. Born, Sunday morning, March sth, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnson, a ten pound boy. Louie Leopold, of Wolcott aud Miss Belle Smith, of Chicago, are visiting A. Leopold and family of this city.

W. S. Coen has continued about as he was Saturday, although in some respects a gradual improvement is noted. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Emery Gariott, of Parr, died Saturday evening, March 4th. Its age was about 2 weeks. Mrs. M. E. Thompson left for Battle Creek this morning, and will sojourn for a time at the well known sanitarium at that city. • * Farmers report many of the country roads quite badly blocked with snow-drifts. Alongside of hedges, especially, the roads are nearly impassible. Tbe thermometer was down to within two degrees of the zero mark at 6:80 this morning. Probably at an earlier hour and in exposed places it touched zero. Notice —The entertainment at the Barkley M. E. church, announced for Friday evening, March, 10th, has been postponed indefinitely on account of the bad roads. Mrs. L. M. Imes and Mrs. T. J. Penn, who will be associated with her in her millinery business this year, went to Chicago this morning to buy goods and study styles for a few days. There will be no March term of the Jasper circuit court this year. Tbe new law for this circuit carries the business of the March term

over to tne term beginning the second Monday in April. The March term of the commissioners court begins today. This will be the last regular quarterly session they will ever hold, as the new law, requiring monthly sessions, will go into effect before the Ist Monday in June. W. H. Beam, our station agent, was taken sick last night at a Chicago hotel, where he was staying, and was brought home on the 11 a. m. train today. Mrs. Beam was with him, and from Hammond here he was accompanied by a physician also. The Wabash freight train wreck at Delphi, which blocked the Monon Friday night, was caused by the train breaking in two, and the rear part running into the front, when the latter made a quick stop at tbe foot of a long hill, the engineer not knowing that the train had broken. A dozen or more cars were wrecked and one man killed, a tramp not identified.

Again it has happened that tbe biggest snow storm of the winter has come in March, the one beginning here Saturday having brought a deeper fall of snow and higher drifts than any we have had before. This statement is not true of most parts of the country however, for there have been some enormous and wide spread snow storms this winter, but this immediate section escaped the worst of them. So far as heard from the people at our depot are the only ones in the conntyx who failed to hear the new fire whistle Saturday. Squire James Yeoman, 6 miles west, heard plainly it and telephoned in to ask what all the noise was about. And its reach is not even confined to the county, as reports of its having been heard plainly at Mt. Ayr, in Newton county, have been received. Rudyard Kipling, the celebrated writer, has so far recovered from his attack of pneumonia, at New York, as to be considered out of

danger. The literary incKaedl people, here, as everywhere, bavarf taken a great interest in Kipling’s sickness and will be greatly n-i joiced at his recovery. Our noted literary society, The Fortnightly \ Fiction Club, will devote several of their next meetings to staiyiiigfi Kipling’s works.